Chapter 713 It was Ma Lu who ruined them.
Shu Yu, with her sharp eyes, noticed that the way the others were looking at her was a little strange, and raised her eyebrows slightly.
"Don't tell me that the Fifth Team's encounter with the bear has anything to do with you guys."
No sooner had she finished speaking than the sound of the Fifth Team crying loudly came from the other room, “Officer, it was Ma Lu and his men who harmed us, they plotted against us…”
Ma Lu snorted coldly, walked directly to the door of the house, and said to the people inside, "Don't make false accusations. How did we harm you? Did I send Big Bear here? Did I instruct it to hurt you? If I had that ability, would I need to go through all that trouble hunting in the mountains every day? Wouldn't it be better to just have Big Bear deliver the prey to my doorstep?"
"Exactly, I know your Team Five and our Team Three don't get along, and now you've suffered heavy losses. But you can't just resort to desperate measures and throw all sorts of dirty water at us, can you?"
The people from the third team stood at the door making sarcastic remarks, which made the person from the fifth team who had just spoken so angry that he spat out blood again.
Shu Yu's lips twitched, and Fang Xiyue pulled her aside and whispered, "Actually, we didn't expect that the people from Team Five would encounter Big Bear."
So, what exactly happened?
Fang Xiyue glanced around and, seeing no officers present, whispered, "Last time, didn't the Fifth Team catch a poisonous snake to kill us, but that Young Master Meng dealt with them? We were in a hurry to catch the tiger at the time, so we didn't have time to deal with them. Today, Ma Lu and the others said they wanted to get revenge, otherwise the Fifth Team would think we were afraid of them."
So when Ma Lu noticed the Fifth Team following them on the way up the mountain, he deliberately spoke loudly about how he had fought the tiger.
Of course, some of it is fabricated.
Ma Lu said that when they encountered the tiger that day, there was actually more than one tiger; there was also a slightly smaller tiger, which was probably the tiger's cub.
They originally saw the tiger cub first. Although it wasn't as big as the one they had hunted down, it was still quite large, and they could get a reward for capturing it.
Unexpectedly, just as the group surrounded the tiger cub and had already injured it, the adult tiger appeared. It told the cub to escape first, while it stayed behind to deal with them.
When Ma Lu and his companions finished fighting the tiger, to avoid any further complications, they didn't go looking for the other one, and carried this one down the mountain.
I wonder if that injured tiger cub is still in the same place, and if it has recovered.
They decided to go and see if it was still there. If it was, they would send it again while the governor was still in Heichang County, and maybe they could get an even bigger reward this time.
The group acted immediately, heading into the deep mountains together.
Just as they were about to reach that place, one of the team members missed a step and twisted his ankle. Now, he could barely walk, let alone hunt.
The three teams couldn't possibly abandon him; losing one of them would significantly reduce their safety.
So the group discussed it and decided to let the tiger cub go for now and come back to check on it in a few days.
They quickly turned and left the deep mountains.
Ma Lu and his gang spoke those fabricated stories fluently, and the five teams following behind them naturally heard them as well.
But they actually believed it, and even started to think: if the third team won't fight, they will.
Upon hearing that the other party was just an injured tiger cub, the group immediately felt that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and it would be a pity to miss it.
(End of this chapter)
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